Re: [RFC][PATCH 09/10] taskstats: Fix exit CPU time accounting

[Roland McGrath]

> > I would consider it to be a BUG() that the time is not accounted.
> > Independent of the fact that a parent wants to see the SIGCHLD and
> > the exit status of its child the process time of the child should be
> > accounted, no?
> 
> I do not know. It doesn't look like a BUG(), I mean it looks as if
> the code was intentionally written this way.

POSIX specifies this behavior: "If the child is never waited for (for
example, if the parent has SA_NOCLDWAIT set or sets SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN),
the resource information for the child process is discarded and not
included in the resource information provided by getrusage()."


Thanks,
Roland
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